Shifting Blame?

March 19, 2015

Re: Scott Shavers letter to the editor, Baptist Message
8/24/00

Wow! Let me see if I understand what is being said here. …
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship leaders admit that some CBF funds are being used
to support the pro-homosexual “Baptist Peace Fellowship.” And then
Scott Shaver excuses this, trying to shift blame by saying that Cooperative
Program funds are being used to support the Baptist World Alliance.

Re: Scott Shavers letter to the editor, Baptist Message
8/24/00

Wow! Let me see if I understand what is being said here. …
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship leaders admit that some CBF funds are being used
to support the pro-homosexual “Baptist Peace Fellowship.” And then
Scott Shaver excuses this, trying to shift blame by saying that Cooperative
Program funds are being used to support the Baptist World Alliance.

Sounds to me like that is what the argument presented boils
down to.

So, since when do two wrongs make a right?

Some Southern Baptists are working very hard to correct such
problems rather than tolerate, excuse, or condone them. This is the purpose
of my motion, presented to the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando this past
June. This motion calls for the SBC Executive Committee to study and make recommendations
regarding all of our SBC entities and employees involvements with
other groups. Of course, this would include a careful examination of our relationship
to the Baptist World Alliance.

The BWA, while involved in some good projects, now includes
some groups that are “Baptist” in name only, … even some which are
so liberal as to practice the baptism of infants. Hopefully, the SBC Executive
Committee will recommend to the convention a way to establish a truly Baptist
organization for the support and fellowship of genuine Baptist groups worldwide.

The SBC is moving to examine and correct such problems, while
the CBF is moving into an even broader acceptance of such. Recently, the CBF
applied for membership in the BWA.

The biblical method for dealing with a discovered wrong is not to try to excuse
it or shift blame to others and surely not to endorse a broader toleration of
the wrong. The biblical model is for Christians to work together toward correction
of the wrong.

Jerry Moser

Pastor Bayou Dularge Church

Theriot

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